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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2-xi S. VI. 139., Aua. 28. '68. 



courts, served in Italy against the Turke and Spaniard, 

 but by the blessing of God I official at God's altar,' &c. 

 The author was a Eonian Catholic." 



We take it that the author was the younger 

 son of Sir John Peyton, Bart, of Islehani, Cam- 

 bridgeshire, by Alice, daughter of Sir Edward 

 Osborne (Lord Mayor of London 1585). He was 

 elected from Eton to King's College, Cambridge, 

 1609, proceeded B.A. 16 — , but did not commence 

 M.A. till 1629. He has Latin verses in the Uni- 

 versity collection on the death of Henry Prince 

 of Wales, 1612. In Harwood's Alumni Etonenses 

 (212.) it is stated that he travelled into Italy, 

 studied the law, and was a justice of the peace, 

 but afterwards took orders. In AVotton's Baronet- 

 age (i. 31.), and Burke's Extinct and Dormant 

 Baronetage (400.), he is erroneously called Fellow 

 of Queens College, Cambridge. 



We hope through the medium of your columns 

 to obtain farther information respecting this gen- 

 tleman, especially the date of his death. 



C. H. AND Thompson Coopee. 



Endowed Schools. — Can any one of your corre- 

 spondents inform me what is the present condition 

 of the following endowed schools, which were 

 (some fifty or sixty years since) among the most 

 successful in England. They are, I believe, all 

 greatly dependant on the good sense and friendly 

 cooperation of the trustees, that is, the mayor and 

 corporation of the several towns to which they be- 

 long. Much is now said about the importance of 

 rural associations in the neighbourhood of schools. 

 All these schools, though in towns, possess that 

 advantage. The schools about which I would in- 

 quire are those of Exeter, Norwich, Tiverton, 

 and Reading. If I am rightly informed, the two 

 last are nearly extinct. E. C. H. 



Henry Holme. — His Manual of Prayers, Medi- 

 tations, and Thanksgivings, tvilh Ve7\'ies of Man's 

 Mortality and Hope of Resurrection, 1690, forms 

 lot 133. in the Sale Cat.alngue of Dr. Bliss's 

 MSS. Is anything more known of the author ? 

 One of the name was of Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, B.A. 1671, M.A. 1675. Another was 

 Fellow of Trinity College, B.A. 1715, M.A. 1719, 

 Taxerof the University, 1721, and B.D. 1727. 



C. fl. AND Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Sharpness Rock, Dover. — Which of the several 

 cliffs at Dover was named " Sharpness ? " Before 

 hanging was introduced as a punishment convicted 

 females were thrown off from Sharpness, the Tar- 

 peian rock of Dover, G. R. L. 



Edioard Courtenay and his Twenty Arguments. — 

 I have a manuscript of some 150 pages, entitled : 



" Twenty Arguments against the Oath of Alleadgiance, 

 Propounded to Mr. Preston, and other Defenders of the 

 said Oath, in satisfaction of a late bitter Provocation pub- 



lished on that subject in the name of Mr. Howard. By a 

 Lay-Catholicke. ' Jurabis in veritate et in iustitia, et in 

 Judicio.' Jerem. iv. 2." 



In a different hand is added : 



" Composed by Edw. Courtenay, who died a Confessor 

 in y« Comon Goale at Exon." 



I shall be obliged to anyone who can tell me if 

 this work was ever published ? Who Edward 

 Courtenay was, and the date of his death ? and 

 where I could see or obtain a copy of the pam- 

 phlet published in the name of Mr. Howard ? 



It may be observed that a correct quotation 

 from the Prophet would not have afforded so apt 

 a motto for the writer. The words of Jeremiah 

 are : — 



" Et jurabis; Vivit Dominus in veritate, et in judicio, 

 et in justicia." 



G. Chapman. 



Samuel Grascome. — What is known of this non- 

 juring divine in addition to the notice of him in 

 'The Life of John Keltleivell, pp. 325—330 ? He 

 died in 1718. Did he reside at Caen Wood, 

 Hampstead, in 1703 ? J. Yeowell. 



Post-man and Tuh-man. — Two barristers prac- 

 tising in the Court of Exchequer hold offices 

 which are designated by these whimsical names ; 

 and by virtue of their offices have pre-audience 

 in certain causes and at certain times. Can any 

 of your correspondents tell me the origin of those 

 offices, and their particular privileges, and who 

 has the patronage of them ? Legalis. 



Turgcs of Bristol. — Is anything known of one 

 "Dr. Turges of Bristol," living in 1689? 



R. C. W. 



Scottish Booh of Common Prayer in 1662. — 

 Public attention having been lately much called 

 to the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of 

 England, with the view of having the services 

 abridged ; and the repetition of the Lord's Prayer 

 being commented upon, as one of the obvious re- 

 dundancies, I beg to invite the attention of your 

 readers to the following passage in a charge for 

 " Discipline and for Worship " of Archbishop 

 Leighton (then Bishop Leighton) to the clergy of 

 the diocesan synod of Dunblane. The charge ap- 

 pears in my copy (the collection of the Works in 

 one volume by Aikmau, published in Edinburgh 

 in 18.39) to have been delivered in September, 

 1662, and under the second head, "For Worship," 

 p. 338., the Bishop say.s, " Secondly, that the 

 Lord's Prayer be restored to more frequent use ; 

 likewise the Doxology and the Creed." The time 

 of this charge would be a little more than two 

 years after the restoration of Charles II. (May 29, 

 1660), and on this I beg to inquire whether any 



